In making up my mind as to what Mr. Lincoln really believed, I do not take into consideration the evidence of unnamed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The decision for complete religious freedom and for separation of church and state in the eyes of the rest of the world… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
Faith-based organizations also need a guarantee they will not be forced to give up their right to hire people of their own… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Vehemence is the expression of a blind effort to support and uphold something that can never stand on its own. Whether it… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
You do not have to obey the law you did not sign under, until you hurt anyone. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The civil government ... functions with complete success ... by the total separation of the Church from the State. — James Madison Copy Share Image
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It was not according to the Divine purpose that Jesus was slain at the Passover, but it was according to a human… — John Remsburg Copy Share Image
I have always regretted the dumb and offensive comments I made in my 20s on atheism and homosexuality. — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature. — Richard A. Proctor Copy Share Image
Broken heart. A pump after all, pumping thousands of gallons of blood every day. One fine day it gets bunged up and… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
A willingness to engage in the give and take of argument displays a commitment to cognitive egalitarianism - the proposition that all… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
“It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and… — P.W. Atkins Copy Share Image
He must be able to hear them [the counter arguments] from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance. — James Madison Copy Share Image
I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
Idiots must stop claiming that atheism is a religion. Religion is defined as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Women are afraid. It is unpopular to question the bible. They are creatures of tradition. They fear to question their position in… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The more I work with the powers of Nature, the more I feel God's benevolence to man; the closer I am to… — Guglielmo Marconi Copy Share Image
“[Josiah P. Mendum memorial at Paine Hall] [He turned] the strait-laced Boston of sixty years ago [into] the enlightened Hub of today,… — Josiah P. Mendum Copy Share Image
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Jerusalem is ... the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much dream as stone ... a compressed symbol of… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If this is a war, my side has the nuclear bomb. We have K Street. We have Wall Street. Debbie doesn't have… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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